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2 days ago · Nazism. Nazi Germany was an overwhelmingly Christian nation. A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era [1] after the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia [2] into Germany, indicates [3] that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 41% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as Gottgläubig [4] (lit. "believing ...
10 hours ago · (3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: Admission to Honors Program. This course is an introductory study of human civilization in a global context. It examines the role played by crisis in shaping human institutions and reshaping worldviews from the origins of civilization in the Fertile Crescent to the modern era.
4 days ago · The journey of Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras and his stay in Florence at the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries has been celebrated as an event that decisively shaped the course of European humanism. The later return of Enlightenment humanism to Ottoman lands in the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries can be described as the return of Chrysoloras. This return is ...
1 day ago · The growth of Christianity from its obscure origin c. 40 AD, with fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical approaches. Until the last decades of the 20th century, the primary theory was provided by Edward Gibbon in The History ...
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1 day ago · Pope is the title, since about the 9th century, of the bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The pope is regarded as the successor of St. Peter and has supreme power of jurisdiction over the Catholic Church in matters of faith and morals, as well as in church discipline and government.
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5 days ago · Pope Francis responded to U.S. conservative bishops' criticisms of his progressive shift to Roman Catholic Church doctrine in an interview with CBS News' "60 Minutes" airing Sunday evening. Details: The pope noted during the interview via a Spanish translator that the adjective "conservative" in such instances was "one who clings to something ...
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